In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
RICHARD FEYNMANEverything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
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I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.
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It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.
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Quantum mechanics describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is – absurd.
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Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
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